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Our politicians and medical system executives have completely failed to do the one thing that would have actually made a difference: increase hospital capacity to care for COVID patients.

All these mandates and lockdowns are just performance art to distract from their abject failures.

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Unfortunately you can't rank up the production of nurses like you would rank up production of ammo or masks. It takes to time to either educate a new nurse or divert and re-educate an operational nurse to a new function (pulmonary and respiratory syndrome surveillance and care) and then you miss a nurse for `regular` care.

> made a difference: increase hospital capacity to care for COVID patients.

Why would they have ? They've been told it's just a cold last year and they are told or tell omicron is just a cold.

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